This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. O Hamlet! Thou hast cleft my heart in twain. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 2. Which literary device is used when apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction? A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 3. 4) Her smile was a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. A lot of teachers are having a working vacation this summer. A) PARADOX. B) OXYMORON. C) IRONY. D) LITOTES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OXYMORON. 5. Which figure of speech is the speaker using?"We will fight come what may, we will fight on all fronts, we will fight for a thousand years." A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 6. The sun smiled down on us. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:Teach him to be gentlewith gentle people, A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 8. "The cat's as fast as a jet on a runway" is an example of a metaphor. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. "Do as I say not as I do." is an example of ..... A) Chiasmus. B) Pun. C) Anaphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 10. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a key hole A) Alliteration. B) , personification,. C) , hyperbole. D) Metaphor,. E) Simile,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) , hyperbole. 11. Who can fight life when death steps in? A) Tautology. B) Interrogation. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogation. 12. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. The bells of the church went ding dong.Select the right word in the above sentence which shows onomatopoeia A) Went. B) Ding Dong. C) Bells. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ding Dong. 14. Greedy google eyes A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. The sun stretched its golden arms across the land. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. My teacher has eyes in the back of her head. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. When our dog gave birth in the park she got a ticket for littering. A) Hyperbole. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 19. Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence. Ms. Leni Robredo made a fiery speech. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. When words are literal, they mean exactly what they say. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. "This was a minor crisis and the only choice was to drop the product line, " (Todd 2007). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 22. Can you lift that heavy bag like Hercules? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 23. Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia? A) Beautiful. B) Crash. C) Tricky Technology. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crash. 24. He was blabbering so much nonsense that I died of embarrassment A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 25. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Do you want to be a failure for the rest of your life?" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Antithesis. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 4Figures Of Speech Quiz 5Figures Of Speech Quiz 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8Figures Of Speech Quiz 9Figures Of Speech Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books